Old Xbox 360s Show up in New Premium Holiday Bundles

Jan 11, 2008 - A local video game retailer said they were shocked to find old Xbox 360 models inside their new 2007 Holiday Bundle boxes (the ones that come with Forza Motorsport 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance.) The retailer discovered this issue when a customer complained that the Xbox 360 Premium Holiday Bundle they purchased had no HDMI port. Upon hearing this, the store's video game staff went to look at their stock of Xbox 360 Premium Holiday Bundles, only to find that there was a large mix of old and new models, but all with the new Holiday Bundle packaging. In fact, some of the models were dated back as far as October 2006, which means that not only did they have no HDMI port, they were also running on an older, more defect prone chipsets.

they use a temp service to hire ones to come in and swap out the old box or items and put the bundles together. I know this for a fact because my friend and his mother where working on the PS3 bundles down in Compton, CA. Not saying my friend and his mother are not bright but they are hired help for a temp job and anything could happen, that's if this story is even true.

At least someone was bright and made sure to check to make sure the HDMI port was there or not there in this case and took it back.

there is no way in hell this is true.if it was then it would've been all over the news and we would've already heard that microsoft is under investigation already for this because it's against the law and this would cost microsoft a lot more then it's worth. i'm not a fanboy of the 360 and ps3 because i think that they are both damn good systems.i own a 360 since launch and i never had a problem yet with it,i hate sony and never would by a ps3 but i'm not going to lie and say the ps3 sux because it doesn't and there is no way that this would be true even if it was sony. if people really belive this story they need to have their heads checked because something wrong with them.instead of being ps3 fans they need to stop and think before they make an ass of themselfs and say this is true.if they belive it they need to ask themself why isn't microsoft under investigation now,why didn't anyone sue them yet.people need to realize how much this is against the law,you can't sell a system as new when it isn't,hell it even say on the damn box that it has an hdmi in the 360 + you could even see it,so this guy is a lier and i'll tell him to his damn face he is,and he's just a ps3 fanboy trying to make the 360 look bad and for someone to lie about the 360 just to make the ps3 look better is worring his ass off about the ps3 system and game sales because that's the only reason to lie.all the evidence show that it's not true,hell if it was then all the things i listed would be happening already and not one is. another thing i don't understand is how can people disagree with you even if they are ps fans when you talk about the defect with the drives in the early ps(not the ps3 because the few people that had problems is to few to mention).almost every time when you put a game in the ps2 it would read can't read disc even if it was a new game and system.at first sony denyed it and said that it wasn't true but they had to say it was true latter on and people still disagee when people say this and it's public records all they have to do is read up on it and they would see but instead of doing that they just disagree because it's sony but when a stupid bullsh*t story like this one that's you could see is easily a lie they agree because it's a 360 i'm not saying the defect in the ps2 was higher then the 360 because it wasn't but it was like a %26 failure rate.i'm not saying that every one had problems with the ps2 because they didn't but i had to buy five of them in less then 2 years because of it and i never tried to lie and do the things that people are trying to do to the 360.

So imagine you run a game retailer. One customer comes in and says "There's no HDMI port on this console!" Do you send your employees to open up all the Holiday bundle SKUs, thus severely lowering the chance of selling them new?

Who is dumb enough to believe this. Especially when you can "check the serial" on the side. Stupid. Why are people on this site so gullible?

Are you talking about tamper seals on the consoles? Yes they all have those. I am talking about factory seals on the retail boxes at least in the US. I have sold a bunch of these systems in the past. Xbox 360s come with a 3 inch clear round sticker to seal the box. PS3's come with a clear 2.5 inch round sticker to seal the box. And Wiis have no stickers at all on the box. Look on the web and you can easily find websites that sell clear round stickers in various sizes.

BTW I just reread the article and they never even mention opening the box. You CAN see the manufacture date of a 360 without opening the box. They have a little peep hole showing the serial number and right below that is the manufacture date.

as far as i know they dont refurbish anymore, they just take your xbox and swap out the guts for the revised hardware then send it back, this story is bs, i know 3 people that got this bundle for christmas and all were new consoles

I'm in the same boat.. Got my RRoD returned to me, and first thing I looked for was the Manufacture date..which to my surprise said 07/2006. REFURB! I've not seen a problem yet, and I don't know if its just an old box with new guts..but I was definitely pissed, namely since my RRoD unit returned had a 12/2006 date.

Douchebaggery, I come here to read news and not twisted fud, idiot its you!!!! that can put me on ignor, you don't have to read my posts vs myself having to edit and filter real and usful news through all the anti MSFT hate posts, have a good day.

douchebuggery, whom are you to talk about anyone, you are a fanboy .fair play to round peg ,he goes with the flow for what ever reason, was it not the round peg that said he was going to get friends from other forums to get the sony boys? lol , go where the grass is green. this site is turning into a bigger mess every day!

No SH*T! thats the point of this fictional tale, from the sounds of this fanatic posting this BS he went anti MSFT judging by his posts and news posts. Retailer not named for good reason you would think this is a huge deal yet the retailer won't be named?.

The media will build up something and rip it down again, its MSFT's turn then when Sony's on top of the world it will be torn down and then built back up again. Its the way the media gets paid etc.

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We would never know would we?, PS3 isn't consistantly attacked.

Talking like Sony would admit something was going on. lol. They lied about the issues with PS2 and wouldn't admit the issue ever and was forced to admit the issue making consumers pay for shoddy hardware and you think Sony's going to spill the beans?. lol PS3 had disc loader issues but no one tries to destroy Sony so no one knew about it. A whole country in Asia had shoddy PS3 hardware(disc loader issues)

Yeah, then you will have no software. Losers, this is just a 360 hater site and I love to hate each and everyone of you broke ass Sony fan douche bags.I own each system and the PS3 was just collects dust being that HS and Unfarted only took 7 hours to beat. Fall of man is the only other good game. The 360? too many to list. Have fun with that 9 million system sales gap!

Yah, Microsoft accidently took the old xbox's apart, accidently threw those parts in with the manufacturing of new systems, then accidently threw a new exterior sleve around it... Keep thinking that buddy.

Wow this is pretty sad and definitely a major concern for gamers all around the world looking to invest their money into this bundle. For your own sake people stop buying 360's, you'll only encourage Microsoft to keep feeding consumers with their bullsh*t.

Question to those xbox 360 haters... is there any way... that at the gamestore was swaping old models with new ones and then say that this came like that...

I mean... I hope you guys are aware that this consoles are boxed from the assembly lines and microsoft for the most part never even touch any of these xboxes let alone box them... could be an assembly problem.. which explain the batch...

I do find it incredible that some of you haters are stupid enough to sudgest that any company will deliver old consoles with different specs (HDMI) knowing that they will have to replace them anyways... how stupid is that? I think sudgesting it's a lot worst...

"wow i am sorry for the person who buy that x360 " and no... don't I am sure they got a new one... you can go to the store and have them replace it... because duhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! it does not come with what the box says (HDMI)... also.. the store if true will get their shipment replace... duhhhhhh!

I remember the Xbox fans jumping on the news that some site made up about the 40% failure rate for the PS3, no source, also remember TheMart posting 'news' from someone's post in an internet forum claiming Sony wanting to charge him $120 for fixing a brand new PSP. no facts there either so you guys need to get your own house in order before you start shouting here.

M$ probably still had some old units to get rid of, and the bundle was a sneaky way of doing so. Besides, it's not like the holiday bundle has some special packaging. It's just a few stickers slapped on a regular 360 box. Glad the 360 in my holiday bundle wound up being a Falcon.

Please all MS fanboys read the story before claiming it is false and here to cause flame war. Checking the boxes does not mean breaking the seal as some of you guys have said. I am skeptical of the story too but I do not for one second put it past Microsoft. This is how big, greedy corporations operate, end of story.